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16 Cards in this Set
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'Match box brain' |
-Very small, unintelligent -contrast between big and small |
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'Room sized monster' |
- massive, bigger than MacCaig - frightening apperence of the shark, normally an imaginary character |
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'Though enough' |
Doesn't want to repeat the experience |
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'But not too often' |
- a change of direction - a reflection, he changes his mind |
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' once (to often)' |
-use parentheses to add 'to often' therefore once was to many times -MacCaig wishes it never happened -fear, first impression- negative experience |
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'Rock' |
-metaphor - describing the shark as big, solid /immovable |
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'The fin slid away and then the tail' |
-MacCaig has changed his perspective,he now admires the sharks beauty - he now sees the ugliness I'm us (humans) |
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'Sail after sail' |
-metaphor to describe the shark - sounds like a boat sails - triangular, white, very big (emphasising sharks size) -particularly good comparison as they are both water based |
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' The thought made me grow pale' |
-sickened/shocked/appalled - realisation that people are monsters |
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'So who's the monster?' |
-rhetorical question -at first MacCaig thought this was the shark -now he thi ks it might be us -links to 'decadent townee' civilised -we have raped the environment for our own 'needs' |
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'Slime' |
- word choice - bacterial soup, negative connotations -sticky |
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'Emerging' |
-people have come out in front in the evolution race |
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'In one fling' |
-suggests fast movement -even though evolution is slow, compared to the shark we have advanced very quickly |
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'Decadent townee ' |
-luxurious, enjoys the good things in life, clothes, fancy food -comes from an urban setting, cultured |
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Centuries back |
-metaphor - the shark is big, unintelligent, lack of evolution |
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The displaced |
-the shark - being shifted, the water is being shifted which almost over turns the boat - the shark displace MacCaig. Made him think |
